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Palo Alto Cortex

Listed in the vendor table for CNAPP and Endpoint protection and 2 more. Not named in any of the 288 answers those categories produced in the September 2026 Edition: twelve models, six prompts per category and segment, every question asked three times, on behalf of a small B2B company, a mid-market B2B company and an enterprise B2B company, with every standing computed within one segment.
Standing
Not named in 288 answers
Absence in a measured set of answers is a finding, not a verdict: it says the models did not reach for Palo Alto Cortex when asked these questions this month. The products they named instead are listed by category below.

By buyer segment

The same categories asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each share and rank is computed within its segment; the columns sit side by side and are never added together.
CategorySmall businessMid-marketEnterprise
Endpoint protection0% · 66 of 89
1 label
not namednot named
Threat intelligence platformsnot namednot named0% · 103 of 105
1 label

Where it was not named

Each category Palo Alto Cortex belongs to, the answers collected there, and who the models named first instead.
CategoryFunctionNamed inNamed instead, first-choice share
Cloud-native application protectionCloud and infrastructure0 of 72Wiz 46% · Microsoft Defender for Cloud 30% · Orca Security 16%
Endpoint protectionIT operations and endpoint0 of 72Microsoft Defender for Cloud 22% · Bitdefender GravityZone 20% · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 18%
Extended detection and responseSecurity operations0 of 72Microsoft Defender XDR 63% · Coro 7% · SentinelOne Singularity 5%
Threat intelligence platformsSecurity operations0 of 72NordStellar 13% · MISP 11% · Rapid7 Threat Command 11%
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